Public unrest, social institutions and trust
We will no doubt be asking for some time to come what happened in England’s towns and cities over the past few days. It is clear that the trigger was the police response to the marchers requesting an explanation for the death of their son, brother, friend and lover Mark Duggan. Some reports have said [...]
1) From a zoomed-out perspective, condemning riots seems to make as much sense as shaking your fist at a hurricane. Riots are not the virus, they are the fever. 2) Much has been written already about looting being the mirror image of the same behavior at the top of the power and privilege ladder.Greed that has propelled [...]
Continue reading …Excerpt/Preview: —- “On Multivitamin: Art as Dietary Supplement.” Artist Talk w/ Evan Nabrit and (American) Ex-Patriots in Paris, FR. 2010. — Filmed: November 21st, 2010. — American Visual Artist, Evan Nabrit (b.1982) gives talk on recent collage work @ intimate gathering, near Notre Dame in Paris, FR. Artist leads brief discussion on medium; follows [...]
Continue reading …